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C tj News jorain oun VOL No 101 OBERLIN AND WELLINGTON WEDNESDAY FEB 5 1862 100 PER ANNUM THE LORMN COUNTY NEWS A WEEKLY PAPEK OVER 1000 CXHCULATIOIT Published every Wednesday atOberlin and Wellington Devoted to General News and thointerests of Lorain County V A SHANKLABTD Publisher Ternii of Subscription One Year 1 00 Six Months 50 Three Months 25 News and Clev Leader 2 00 News and Clev Herald 2 00 News and Atlantic Monthly 8 00 News and Rural New Yorker 2 25 AUVEKIiflW One column one year 40 00 Onehalf 25 00 Onefourth 14 00 Oneeighth 8 00 One square 6 00 One square one week 50 One square each subseqnt insertn 25 Tho News is regularly supplied with correspondence from every parr of the county and from all tho LorainCompanies in the Military service All Business Letters and allCommunLiations must be addressed to V A SIIANKLAND Publisher Oberlin O A SEMIMONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to Doctrinal and PracticalReligious Teaching REV H GWLES EDITOR TERMS SingleCopy one vear 1 00 Clubs of four do 00 Clubs of seven Uo 5 00 Clubs of ten do 7 00 Clubs of fifteen do 10 00 Clubs of twenty do 12 00 The name of each subscriberthenumber of the paper to which he has paid und the name of tho Postoffice where it is taken will be printed in plain type on each No of the paper in the case of clubs as well as of single subscribers Letters on business 8bould beaddressed to V A SHANKLAND Publisher JOB PRINTING Our Job Rooms are furnished with TYPE PRESSES WORKMEN and every desirable Facility for DoinJg JTeaitly any style of BOOK OR JOB PRINTING At the Lowest Living Rates All Orders from abroad carefully attended to BUSINESS DIRECTORY f H DICKSON Attorney and Counsellor at J Law Office over Kuslsstore w osisiuBruu ic Square Wellington 0 BLISS AND JOHNSTON i oUroa nl onlt Knlloi AUOrntiJB tuuuciiuia u tors in Chancery Wilt attend promptly to all business enirustea to mwir caro wmuo w 8 liaWiiu Block attke head of thestursi Klykll Ohio A A Bliss C W Johnston Hot 39 186li BROKAW HENDRY Dealers in Clocks Watches Jewelry Musical Instruments Silver Ware Spectacles FancyJolions Fancy Caina Ware c 2 Union Block Oberlin O See advertisement F S1DDALL Dentist Union Block Oberlin Ohio 4tf COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE 2d FloorWhitlj neys Hall Oberlin O See Adverwement SS CALKINS Principal KINNEY REAMER Dealers in Dry Goods Groceries Crockery Hardware etcODeriinOtiio See Advertisement I M JOHNSON Co Dealers in Dry Goods iGroceries Hardware Crockery Produce etc No 1 Merchants Exchange Main St Oberlin Ohio See Advertisemont H L HENRY Dealer lu Druga Medicines dec Oberlin O See Advertisement H a RiTNfE Dealer in Dru2s Medicines 4o Oberlin O See Advertisement ALMER HOUSE Corner of Main and Col lege Streets Oberlin li tALMHK rropn etor GW ELLS Merchant Tailor opposite the Palinor House Oberlin Ohio T M FITCH Bookseller and Stationer and J Dealer iu Pictures Picture Frames and a great variety of goods suitable to his trade Ober lin uuio Mrs 3HBarryMD Offioe Corner of Main and College Streets Mesidcnce Union Block over Jarvis and Md1 Car an s Boot and Shoe Store Oberlin O Office Hours 1 to 12 A II and 2 to 6 P M Special Attention raid io Obstetric Practice March 7 f J HAYES CO Dealers in American and Italian Marble TABLETS TOMBSTONES AND MONUMENTS Designed and executed in the best style and finish Thev desire to make known to the Public that they furnish the above named marble at very low prices Having no agents out but leaving it to thepurchasers to come and make bargains and then l buyers will save the commission given to agents Main St OBERLIN O ltf More Teamsters Wanted Those desiring a position as teamster in tia Kentucky division of the Army will call on mo at my Office soon and put down their name S PLUMB Jan 22d ISflt Nearer Home One sweetlysolemn thought Comes to me oer and oer Im nearer home today Than I have ever boch before Nearer my fathers house Where the many mansions be Nearer the great white throne Nearer the jasper sea Nearer the bound of life Where we lay our burdens down Nearer leaving my cross Nearer wearing my crown But lying darkly between Winding down through the night Is the dark and shadowy slream That bursts at last into light Closer and closer my steps Come to the dark abysm Closer death to my lips Presses the awful chrism Savior perfect my love I Strengthen tho might of my faith Let me feel as I would when I stand On the rock of the shore of death Feel as I would when my feet Are slipping over the brink For it may be Im nearer home Nearer now than I think Anon Speech of Hon H G Blake on the Abolition of the Franking Privilege Our readers will be pleased with the following outspoken utterances of our faithful representative in Congress on the franking system Mr Speaker I suppose that it isimpossible for any committee of this House to bring in a measure detracting in the least from any of the privileges now enjoyed by members that would meet with the approval of everymember of this House It is not in thenature of man it never was in the nature of man to pirt with a privilege onceenjoyed without great regret and without making some struggle to retain it I beliove that the franking privilege should be abolished I beiieve that it ghould be abolished because of the abuses that have grown up tinder it And if gentlemen who have expressed themselves in favor of the abolition of the franking privilege will only unite with us in some practical measure for that purpose it will be accomplished But it is almost impossible for us hitw half a dozen different propositionspending before the House to accomplish the great object which we have in view I question no mans motives for I have no right to do so I question no mans action ont his bill for I have no right to do so But Mr Speaker itisapparent to every man here that enormous abuses exist in connection with this franking privilege Nut a member who has spoken on the question has undertaken todeny that The question then comes home to us how shall we correct these abuses 1 and that is the question to which I wish to direct the attention ol the House at this tune Mr Speaker I am in favor of the bill reported by the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads because it accom plishes the desired result It cuts up by the roots all the abuses that have crept up under this franking privilege It is well known that the presentsystem with all its abuses has become a burden to the Post Office Department and is now a direct tax upon the people The franking privilege is it is truei do benefit to the member Now sir I do not agree with thegentleman that it is a personal privilege to me I know it is not a privilege to any man to be permitted to sit down end frank a hundred thousand documents and I franked more than that number during the last Congress But it is a privilege to a few individuals in my district who are the recipients of these documents and it is a privilege to them at a very great expense to all the others who do not receive them If members of Congress could senddocuments to all their constituents in their respective districts it would then indeed be a privilege to all to send them free of postage but wo all know that not more than one in a hundred can receive the benefit of sending these documents for the reason that it is not possible for the Government to furnish them It is true that members may purchase them at their own expense as I have done to some extent to make up the deficien cy but that cannot bo done to any con siderable extent The question then is nro tho few men only to be supplied are the many to be taxed for the benefit of lh few I for one nm not willing to continue a system which practically produces such results But sir this bii is opposed on the ground that it furnishes inteligerice to the people in the shape of congressional documents and speeches at the expense of those who receive the documents and speeches and that the people will feel it to be a burden to be compelled to pay tho postage on them I do not agree with gentlemen when they say we are shutting out light from the people by passing this bill On the contrary I bold that intelligence will be diffused by the passage of this bill If there is any gentlemen here who does not wish to tux his constituents to whom he sends documents with the payment of postage upon them he can have the patriotic privilege of paying it himself under this bill If any gentleman here if the gentleman from Illiuois Ma Kellogg feels that he ought not to tax his constituents with the payment of one cent postage upon his spjeches or five cents postage upon anAgricultural report or ten cents upon a volume of the Congressional Globe let him pay it out of his own pocket It is apatriotic privilege which this bill permits every mac to enjoy without let orhindcrance But sir the gentleman is willing thai the whole people of the ceuntry shall be taxed for the benefit of the few who are the recipients of these documents For myself I am willing to believe that no portion of my constituents would be unwilling to pay postage on the documents they receive I am not willing td believe that there is one man in my district who would be unwilling to pay one cent for a speech or five cents for an Agricultural Patent Office report or ten cents for a volume of the Congressional Globe If there is any such man there he is unworthy toreceive them Again Mr Speaker I submit that this bill should become a law because it will become a source of revenue to the Post Office Department Thedeficiency in the revenues of that Depart ment for the present fiscal year or for the fiscal year of lobl amounts to 4 551966 98 and this deficiency must be met in some way and the only pos sible way in which it can be made up is by a tax upon the people By the provisions of this bill more than amillion dollars can be brought into the Treasury and the people relieved from taxation to that amount Mr Speaker in these times when we are compelled to tax the necessaries of life to support our Army in a war for the maintenance and restoration of the Ion slitution and the Union this is no incon siderable item I would like to be in formed I would like to have anygentleman inform me how he proposes to defend his vote to place upon teasugar coffee and molasses the enormous tax wheh has beon put upon them as a matter of necessity 10 iaTseVTri60uey to pay our soldiers i say I ask any gen tlemau how he is to defend his voteupon that bill when to day he refuses to vote for the passage of a bill tho ettect of which will be as all admit to put more than 1000000 into the national treasury I did not intend to speak at length upon this bill It has been fully consid ered by our committee and 1 believe unanimously agreed upon by them Ana sir permit ma to say that 1 think the chairman of that committee deserves crreat credit for having perfected a meas ure that accomplishes all the purposes that the franking piivnege canaccomplish while it corrects the abuses that privilege has given rise to It diffuses intelligence among the people and at the same time is a source of revenue to the Department I say he deserves great credit for having perfected a bin ot tnis character and I trust the House will come to the conclusion to vote down all amendments aud let us comepractically to the work of reforming the abuses the overgrown abuses that confront us everywhere upon this question otfranking Over the Field The scenes of the battlefield areterrible even in description Ws may well be thankful that the reality of their terror is not forced upon us From a graphic account in the Cincinnati Commercial of the fight at Mill Spring Old Field Somerset Webbs Cross Roads or whatever name it is to be known by in history we take an extract The hospital tents had been hastily pitched in a small open field at the cros roads and along the edge of the woods skirling tho south side of this field were the first marks of the storm of des truction which had raged so fearfully ant hour before i early through the middle of the DeW is the road leading to Mill Springs in a south or southwesterly di rection 1 entered the woods oil the east side of this road Along the edge of the open field lay tha bodies of four or live of our men As 1 advanced into Uie woods the marks of cannon shot could be seen on every side but I saw none of those murks nearer thau twenty feet from the ground nor did 1 see u dead or wounded man who had been struck wih a cannon 6hot Passing through the woods from the first open field a distauce of nearly half a inile we reach another openhalfcleared field on the left of the road In this field there stands some deadenedtimber many large slumps and trees some ot th latter having been cut down audi some fallen from decay In this field the ground is quits steip with a so utlierndescent to near the center of lhe field aud then rises as rapidly til you reacii the woods on thosouih In the eastern part of this field is a log house mid barn aud an apple orchard Eightyfive deadrebels lay in this field which by way of dis linctiou I will call the old fieldFurther Ob and to the right of the road Is the cornfield where tho braveIndiaua lOlh suffered so severely In the v oods and along the road the scene was dreadful One bodv was nlaced in a siti tin nosture with the back leaninu aniim a tree lhe hands crossed in his Ian nis vs nartlv ooen and his lins slitrntlv nareutlv ted The ball had eutered his left breast just above the region of the heart Anoth er laid upon his side with head and arms thrown back the ball had cutaway part of his skull over his left eye Among a score or more of our own noble dead I saw not one badly mangled body like those which I saw at Vienna And I loved al so to fancy at least that I saw clearlystampedupon each cold faceacalm and holysatisfaction in pouring out their blood in a noble cause to save from ruin the land of our fathers My own brave boy was either among the slain or pursuing the flying foe In which of these positions I might find him I knew not 1 could possibly enjoy 110 higher honor than in the sacrifice of all I hehl dear for the salvation of my country With all the anxieties common to parents I searched for his well known counten ance among the slain So close was the resemblance in many cases that my pulse quickened and my brain began to reel I remembered that he wore a pair of boots of peculiar make and befo e I looked into the face of a corpse I looked at the boots till atlast I feltcoufideut I had found what I sought I looked again and againbefore 1 dared let my eyes rest upon the face There was a irark not on his 1 passed on in haste but suddenly feltcompelled to stop once more against a tree leaned back in the mostolassiccomposure was the most beautiful countenance I ever saw in death No female complexion could he more spotless The silky locks ofwavy auburn hair fell in rich profusion upon fair temples and faultless forehead Some friendly hand had parted his garments bar ing his breast from which the red current of life flowed out and had bathed histemples which were slill warm but hadceased to throb forever O ye winds bear these tidings softly to the loved ones at home Among tho wounded of our men it was really comforting to see with what patient heroism they bore their pains I said to one poor fellow with a shattered leg You must be in great pain can I do anything for you He said There are others worse off than roe when they are carried in you can tell them where I am ifyou please Another man had a ball through his right baudbreaking two of ihe bones He had done it up himself with a wet bandage and with his o her hand w s carrying one cornerof a stretcher with a wouu ledfaaucarryioganer corner of the same stretcher was a man with his head and face covered with blood He said he was not hurt at all he had only lost a large piece of his hat and a small piece of his scalp In the old field among the rebels some of the scenes were horrid and revolting in the extreme A large number of the dead were shot in the head One was shot di rpply in thftoyAt4ttytytnain was ooziug trom the wound rivedead and onewouuded lay behind one log all but thewounded one were shot in the head Onerehel had a ball through his neck whieh des troyed the power of speech though I don t think his wound was mortal Sev eral of tlie dead were old and grey headed men A daiK coinpiexioned man with a heavy black beard who said he was from Mississippi was lying on the ground with a broken thigh He was st rn aud sullen he had only one lavor to ask that was that some one of us would kill him I said lo him we will soon take you to the surgeon and do all we can to relieve you for we are satisfied that you have beendeceived by wicked men and do not know what you have been doing To which he meekly replied that is possible A 3oung man quite a boy begged me to let the Liucolnites kill hitn An elderly man sat with his back against a stump with a Dan directly through the center ot tnu bead at lhe base of the brain There was a ghastly grin upon his countenance his eyes were stretched widely into vacancy while his breath was rapid deep aud heavy His was a living death for he was senseless A lad of fourteen with a mash ed ankle protested his innocence andbegged to be taken care of He said he was pressed into the service and had neverfired a gun at a Union man and never would Numbers of rebels made in effect the same declaration Doing Good atRandomThere is a d iss of men and women in all 1rotei Ant ommuiilticB who think it a very neat thing lo do good at random They sow broadcast of cheap seed content to reap nothing at all aud pleasantly diap pointed if they find here and there a stalk of corn to reward their sowing They do not prepare tlieir ground they do not cul tivate it hi all but Uiey sow hoping that iu some open place a seed may fall and germinate borne of these people regard this method of doing good as a kind 01 Holy stratagem a christiau trick which takes the devil at a disadvantage 1 once knew a kind old gentleman who did a business that brought him considerably intocontact will rough and profane persons and as he wished lo do something lor them he kept his pockets filled with liltle printed cards ntiiledTheSwearers Prayer andwhenever an oath came out the uLterer wasimmediately presented with this card with a liltle story ou it aud a statement that lo swear is neither brave polite nor wise 1 very well remember hearing the old gentle man say that though he had given away hundreds of these cards he had never learned thai one of ihem had done any good I do not wonder al it It was a sneaking way of doing good or of trying to do it If lhe old man had remonsirated personally with these swearing fellows and told ihem that their habit was both vulgar and wicked does any one suppose the suit would have beon so unsatisfactory He had not pluck enough to do ihis so he gave them a card and ihey either threw it in his face or threw it away Butthen the cards did not cost much I have been much interested inwatching a carlodd of passengers while reciving each from lhe hands of a professionaldistributor a religious truck All have receiv ed lhe gift nolitelv iu deference to lhe motive winch prompted or was supposeu to prompt ill bestowal vetI have never failed lo percieve that nolileness was real Iv taxed in the rnatler Now let me be 1 candid and confess thai 1 was never pleas imoressed bv being offered a tract in araiiroad car Thi fact cannot be attribu ted to any lack of disposition to enntem plate religious subjects but there is some tning wnicn tells me that it is improper and indelicate for any man to come into 11 public vehicle and thrust upon me and upon my fellow passengers a set of mo tivesand opinions on religion which may or may not accord with my own and theirs just as it happens I think the natural action of the mind is to brace iUelf against influence sought to be sprung upon it in this manner and I am yet to beconvinced that this indiscriminate and wholele distribution of religious tracts iu railroad stations and public conveyances is notdoing and has not done more harm than good 1 know that multitudes of men not vicious are disgusted with it andoffended by it and that there is something call it what you may in the emotionsexcited by the presentation of a tract under such illchosen circumstances whichcounter acts any gooil influence that it wasintended to produce A gentleman willreceive a tract politely and read it or notaccording to his whim but it will be very apt to disgust him with the style ofChristianity which it represents I am aware that the secretaries and lhe agents of the tract societies make veryencouraging reports of the results oftheirrperations I am always interested in ihese details und do not discredit at al thestatements which they make Nay I amconvinced that in certain lepartments of their effort they are successful in doing much good I believe that their noble army of j colporteurs going from loiielyneighborhood to neighborhood and carrying with them an unselfish devoted life and the living voice of prayer exhortation and counsel win many souls to christianvirtue I am willing to acknowledgefurther that here aud there a tract chance sown may fall into ground ready toreceive it but I have a right to question whether the same outlay of effortandmoney applied directly in other fields would not bring verymuch larger returns My point is that in all efforts to do good in this way appropriateness of time and place is always to be consulted I once took my seat in a dentists chair to have aB operation performed upon my teeth If I remember correctly an ugly fang was to be removed At any rate pain wasinvolved in the matter but no sooner was the dentists arm around my head aud his iustrumeut iu my mouth thantheellmeaning and zealous operator beganquestioning me upon lhe subject of personalreligion Now it seemed quite as bad to undertake to propngate Christianity at the point of a surgicnl instrument as it would be to win proselytes by the sword and the utter incongruity of the two operations dis gimtAH rrro At an j ratri I tftungtd my dentist I fell like the man who found upon his landladys table an articleof butter that was inconveniently encumbered with hair and who informed her that he had no ohjectiou lo hair but would prefer to have it served upon a separate dish A good many Tears ago I read a Sun day school book entitled Walks ofUsefulness It represented a man going out into the treet and pitcuing 11110 every person he met with upon the subject of re ligion or starting a conversation and iui mediately giving it a spiritual twist thought then that lie was a remarkably in geuions man a wonderful story teller to say the least ot him I urn inclined to think now that he romanced a little Every op eration was so neatly done and turned out so well that I really suspect it was pure fiction I have Ibis to say ai any rate that if he did say what he professed to have done and iaid under the circumstances which he described he owed it to thepoliteness of hose whom he addressed that he was not dismissed with a decided rebuff and told to go about his business A word fitly spoken how good it is Ah yes how very good il is Christian zeal is no excuse for bad taste nor is Christian effort exempt irom the laws of fitness and propriety which altach to human effort of other helds It I wish to reach a mans mind upon any important subject andcircumstances to chance I pave my way to his mind by a series of carefullyadjusted efforts Abrupt transitions of thought and feelings and violent interruptions of the currents ol mental tile and action are nrver favorable to reflection If I wish to cheer a mail who is bowed to the earth in grief for the loss of a companiou I wlllnol break in upon his mourning with a lively tune upon a fiddle Ifl wish to attract him to a religious life I will not interrupt the flow of his innocently social hours by some terrible threat or warning In truth 1 kuow of notning that calls for more care a nicer discrimination or choicer address than a personal attempt to move anirreligious mind in a religious direction The word of gold should always hare asettiug of silver Lessons in Life The McCook Family Col McCook wounded at Somerset had a brother killed at Manasas and had two other brothers in the army one in the fiont of Buells divission The father Daniel McCook is iu Washington and was iu the battle of Manassas and Balls Bluff as an amateur fighter He has a brother with six sons in the Union army and the two families contribute about a dozen active fighliug meB to the war Folderol Gen Buel says None of my officers shall altempt to tell people what Ihis war is about I myself dont know what it is about I only know it is my duty to whip the enemy Telegram Whch if Gen Buel said it shows that he is uotfit for his position A leader iu this great war for the Union ouglitto kuow what he is fighting for or lay aside his shoul ler straps Ameuicas Cast Steel Cast steel is now successfully manufactured in this country to a considerable extent and materially interferes with theimnnrtutinn from Great Britain The iEtna Sleel Works at Jersey City are among the oldest manutacturers m country and the steel is in every way equal to thut of foreign manufacture Anecdotes of the late Prince Albert It is said of Prince Albert that he had a very great aversion to expensivepublic funerals and that his own wasconducted in that quiet and unostentatious manner which was so thoroughly inaccordance with his ideas when living In the domestic circle he was the most impartial of fathers Finding the Prince of Wales at fault once among a party of lads with whom he had been at play he took him among them and made him apologize for his rudenessnotwithstanding they were only the sons of sturdy yeomen He delighted to assist the poor and would design buildings for them upon the most economical plan and lend his aid in theirconstruction He was in the habit of relating with a great deal of merriment anadventure he had once with a boy who had charge of cows which the Prince desired to look at The boy notknowing his Royal Highness threatened to set the dog on The Prince explained that he was Prince Albtrt Oh said the bumpkin placing his thumb to his nose and extending his digits Walker ah intimation that he did not believe the slory fnd that his visitor must leave Iu his household he invariably threw off all officialdignity A disturbance at one time arose between himself and the Queen at the end of which the Prince retired to his room Victoria believing hersell to be at fault came to his door about an hour afterwards aud knocked Who is there said the Prince It is the Queen was the reply I do not open my door for the Queen heanswered Victoria immediately said in a subdued tone it is your wife and the door was opened at once The Sutler Abomination An army correspondent of the Albany Evening Journal writes Treason lurks in many shapes but the most foul is that which endeavors to alienate the soldier from implicit confidence in the government with reference to pay and allowances Sutlers are simply well robbers is the word Witness the followingpartial scale of prices A paper of chewing tobacco of the very worst description and manufacture and containing not half so much as your ordinary three cent paper for 6 cents a common clay pipe two for a cent 3 cents a twelve cent pie 30 cents c c I sincerely trust tne office will be abolished and thatlittle necessaries not thought much of at home but the want of which is much exaggerated here will be furnished in some equitable manner whereinkelptojiaxia cannot be so freely practiced Bullets and Bayonets as well as a Moral Uprising The following professes to be anextract from a letter written by a high naval officer at Port Royal It is sound sense whoever wrote it I have been lying here now nearly a month blockading Savannah Savannah river and acting as a water guard for soldiers As I am not one of those who think that this war is to be decided by moral pressure the price of sugar or salt or the uprising of that Southern Union party I cannot help being of opinion that the quicker the army learn to do without gunboats aud fortifications and boldly march ahead withtheniseves for their protection the quicker we shall see daylight which now is visible only to contractors and such like people who being quite satisfied with thepresent condit on ot affairs are bound to speak hopefully and in good spirits I begiu to think with Southern papers that our soldiers enlisted because times were dull but with an understanding that the moral grandeur of the uprising as politicians say was to be sufficient Major Winthrops John Brent AH the good thai all the leaders of the accursed n bellion are likely to doiu the world will scarcely compensate it for the evil they have wrought in the sacrifice of the young aul gallant Major Winthrop alone He was u man of genius of rare and fine powers his friendsscarcely knw the extent of Ids ability whan he was alive and now that he is gone every nevposthumous work given to lhe public deepens their sense of the greatness of thrir bss Mijor Winthrop was yet in his youth when he was killed aud his books that have since been published are in somfi res pects immature and imperfect Ceci Dreeme was scarcely more than a grand outline or sketch John Brent is more fin ished But what vigor in the concep tion what freshness and vivacity ot style what manliness and delicacy ol sentiment what keen perception of character what originality of form what glow andharmony of color It is likely that if theauthor had lived he would have become one of the first of our novelists and talewriters As it is lhe works that neverreceived his finis dng touches will take their places in the livraries of all scholars It is a tale of adventure on the western prairies in which lhe reader is carried rapidly from California to Chicago and afterwards from New York to London The characters are fw and the incidents few but the plot has breathless interest and the events are thrilling withoutbeing improbable One chapter called the Gallop of Three is a masterly bit ofdescription full of the fresh life of the great western plains aud yet as poelic and grand as any romance ef chivalry Sf IT Post

C tj News jorain oun VOL No 101 OBERLIN AND WELLINGTON WEDNESDAY FEB 5 1862 100 PER ANNUM THE LORMN COUNTY NEWS A WEEKLY PAPEK OVER 1000 CXHCULATIOIT Published every Wednesday atOberlin and Wellington Devoted to General News and thointerests of Lorain County V A SHANKLABTD Publisher Ternii of Subscription One Year 1 00 Six Months 50 Three Months 25 News and Clev Leader 2 00 News and Clev Herald 2 00 News and Atlantic Monthly 8 00 News and Rural New Yorker 2 25 AUVEKIiflW One column one year 40 00 Onehalf 25 00 Onefourth 14 00 Oneeighth 8 00 One square 6 00 One square one week 50 One square each subseqnt insertn 25 Tho News is regularly supplied with correspondence from every parr of the county and from all tho LorainCompanies in the Military service All Business Letters and allCommunLiations must be addressed to V A SIIANKLAND Publisher Oberlin O A SEMIMONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to Doctrinal and PracticalReligious Teaching REV H GWLES EDITOR TERMS SingleCopy one vear 1 00 Clubs of four do 00 Clubs of seven Uo 5 00 Clubs of ten do 7 00 Clubs of fifteen do 10 00 Clubs of twenty do 12 00 The name of each subscriberthenumber of the paper to which he has paid und the name of tho Postoffice where it is taken will be printed in plain type on each No of the paper in the case of clubs as well as of single subscribers Letters on business 8bould beaddressed to V A SHANKLAND Publisher JOB PRINTING Our Job Rooms are furnished with TYPE PRESSES WORKMEN and every desirable Facility for DoinJg JTeaitly any style of BOOK OR JOB PRINTING At the Lowest Living Rates All Orders from abroad carefully attended to BUSINESS DIRECTORY f H DICKSON Attorney and Counsellor at J Law Office over Kuslsstore w osisiuBruu ic Square Wellington 0 BLISS AND JOHNSTON i oUroa nl onlt Knlloi AUOrntiJB tuuuciiuia u tors in Chancery Wilt attend promptly to all business enirustea to mwir caro wmuo w 8 liaWiiu Block attke head of thestursi Klykll Ohio A A Bliss C W Johnston Hot 39 186li BROKAW HENDRY Dealers in Clocks Watches Jewelry Musical Instruments Silver Ware Spectacles FancyJolions Fancy Caina Ware c 2 Union Block Oberlin O See advertisement F S1DDALL Dentist Union Block Oberlin Ohio 4tf COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE 2d FloorWhitlj neys Hall Oberlin O See Adverwement SS CALKINS Principal KINNEY REAMER Dealers in Dry Goods Groceries Crockery Hardware etcODeriinOtiio See Advertisement I M JOHNSON Co Dealers in Dry Goods iGroceries Hardware Crockery Produce etc No 1 Merchants Exchange Main St Oberlin Ohio See Advertisemont H L HENRY Dealer lu Druga Medicines dec Oberlin O See Advertisement H a RiTNfE Dealer in Dru2s Medicines 4o Oberlin O See Advertisement ALMER HOUSE Corner of Main and Col lege Streets Oberlin li tALMHK rropn etor GW ELLS Merchant Tailor opposite the Palinor House Oberlin Ohio T M FITCH Bookseller and Stationer and J Dealer iu Pictures Picture Frames and a great variety of goods suitable to his trade Ober lin uuio Mrs 3HBarryMD Offioe Corner of Main and College Streets Mesidcnce Union Block over Jarvis and Md1 Car an s Boot and Shoe Store Oberlin O Office Hours 1 to 12 A II and 2 to 6 P M Special Attention raid io Obstetric Practice March 7 f J HAYES CO Dealers in American and Italian Marble TABLETS TOMBSTONES AND MONUMENTS Designed and executed in the best style and finish Thev desire to make known to the Public that they furnish the above named marble at very low prices Having no agents out but leaving it to thepurchasers to come and make bargains and then l buyers will save the commission given to agents Main St OBERLIN O ltf More Teamsters Wanted Those desiring a position as teamster in tia Kentucky division of the Army will call on mo at my Office soon and put down their name S PLUMB Jan 22d ISflt Nearer Home One sweetlysolemn thought Comes to me oer and oer Im nearer home today Than I have ever boch before Nearer my fathers house Where the many mansions be Nearer the great white throne Nearer the jasper sea Nearer the bound of life Where we lay our burdens down Nearer leaving my cross Nearer wearing my crown But lying darkly between Winding down through the night Is the dark and shadowy slream That bursts at last into light Closer and closer my steps Come to the dark abysm Closer death to my lips Presses the awful chrism Savior perfect my love I Strengthen tho might of my faith Let me feel as I would when I stand On the rock of the shore of death Feel as I would when my feet Are slipping over the brink For it may be Im nearer home Nearer now than I think Anon Speech of Hon H G Blake on the Abolition of the Franking Privilege Our readers will be pleased with the following outspoken utterances of our faithful representative in Congress on the franking system Mr Speaker I suppose that it isimpossible for any committee of this House to bring in a measure detracting in the least from any of the privileges now enjoyed by members that would meet with the approval of everymember of this House It is not in thenature of man it never was in the nature of man to pirt with a privilege onceenjoyed without great regret and without making some struggle to retain it I beliove that the franking privilege should be abolished I beiieve that it ghould be abolished because of the abuses that have grown up tinder it And if gentlemen who have expressed themselves in favor of the abolition of the franking privilege will only unite with us in some practical measure for that purpose it will be accomplished But it is almost impossible for us hitw half a dozen different propositionspending before the House to accomplish the great object which we have in view I question no mans motives for I have no right to do so I question no mans action ont his bill for I have no right to do so But Mr Speaker itisapparent to every man here that enormous abuses exist in connection with this franking privilege Nut a member who has spoken on the question has undertaken todeny that The question then comes home to us how shall we correct these abuses 1 and that is the question to which I wish to direct the attention ol the House at this tune Mr Speaker I am in favor of the bill reported by the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads because it accom plishes the desired result It cuts up by the roots all the abuses that have crept up under this franking privilege It is well known that the presentsystem with all its abuses has become a burden to the Post Office Department and is now a direct tax upon the people The franking privilege is it is truei do benefit to the member Now sir I do not agree with thegentleman that it is a personal privilege to me I know it is not a privilege to any man to be permitted to sit down end frank a hundred thousand documents and I franked more than that number during the last Congress But it is a privilege to a few individuals in my district who are the recipients of these documents and it is a privilege to them at a very great expense to all the others who do not receive them If members of Congress could senddocuments to all their constituents in their respective districts it would then indeed be a privilege to all to send them free of postage but wo all know that not more than one in a hundred can receive the benefit of sending these documents for the reason that it is not possible for the Government to furnish them It is true that members may purchase them at their own expense as I have done to some extent to make up the deficien cy but that cannot bo done to any con siderable extent The question then is nro tho few men only to be supplied are the many to be taxed for the benefit of lh few I for one nm not willing to continue a system which practically produces such results But sir this bii is opposed on the ground that it furnishes inteligerice to the people in the shape of congressional documents and speeches at the expense of those who receive the documents and speeches and that the people will feel it to be a burden to be compelled to pay tho postage on them I do not agree with gentlemen when they say we are shutting out light from the people by passing this bill On the contrary I bold that intelligence will be diffused by the passage of this bill If there is any gentlemen here who does not wish to tux his constituents to whom he sends documents with the payment of postage upon them he can have the patriotic privilege of paying it himself under this bill If any gentleman here if the gentleman from Illiuois Ma Kellogg feels that he ought not to tax his constituents with the payment of one cent postage upon his spjeches or five cents postage upon anAgricultural report or ten cents upon a volume of the Congressional Globe let him pay it out of his own pocket It is apatriotic privilege which this bill permits every mac to enjoy without let orhindcrance But sir the gentleman is willing thai the whole people of the ceuntry shall be taxed for the benefit of the few who are the recipients of these documents For myself I am willing to believe that no portion of my constituents would be unwilling to pay postage on the documents they receive I am not willing td believe that there is one man in my district who would be unwilling to pay one cent for a speech or five cents for an Agricultural Patent Office report or ten cents for a volume of the Congressional Globe If there is any such man there he is unworthy toreceive them Again Mr Speaker I submit that this bill should become a law because it will become a source of revenue to the Post Office Department Thedeficiency in the revenues of that Depart ment for the present fiscal year or for the fiscal year of lobl amounts to 4 551966 98 and this deficiency must be met in some way and the only pos sible way in which it can be made up is by a tax upon the people By the provisions of this bill more than amillion dollars can be brought into the Treasury and the people relieved from taxation to that amount Mr Speaker in these times when we are compelled to tax the necessaries of life to support our Army in a war for the maintenance and restoration of the Ion slitution and the Union this is no incon siderable item I would like to be in formed I would like to have anygentleman inform me how he proposes to defend his vote to place upon teasugar coffee and molasses the enormous tax wheh has beon put upon them as a matter of necessity 10 iaTseVTri60uey to pay our soldiers i say I ask any gen tlemau how he is to defend his voteupon that bill when to day he refuses to vote for the passage of a bill tho ettect of which will be as all admit to put more than 1000000 into the national treasury I did not intend to speak at length upon this bill It has been fully consid ered by our committee and 1 believe unanimously agreed upon by them Ana sir permit ma to say that 1 think the chairman of that committee deserves crreat credit for having perfected a meas ure that accomplishes all the purposes that the franking piivnege canaccomplish while it corrects the abuses that privilege has given rise to It diffuses intelligence among the people and at the same time is a source of revenue to the Department I say he deserves great credit for having perfected a bin ot tnis character and I trust the House will come to the conclusion to vote down all amendments aud let us comepractically to the work of reforming the abuses the overgrown abuses that confront us everywhere upon this question otfranking Over the Field The scenes of the battlefield areterrible even in description Ws may well be thankful that the reality of their terror is not forced upon us From a graphic account in the Cincinnati Commercial of the fight at Mill Spring Old Field Somerset Webbs Cross Roads or whatever name it is to be known by in history we take an extract The hospital tents had been hastily pitched in a small open field at the cros roads and along the edge of the woods skirling tho south side of this field were the first marks of the storm of des truction which had raged so fearfully ant hour before i early through the middle of the DeW is the road leading to Mill Springs in a south or southwesterly di rection 1 entered the woods oil the east side of this road Along the edge of the open field lay tha bodies of four or live of our men As 1 advanced into Uie woods the marks of cannon shot could be seen on every side but I saw none of those murks nearer thau twenty feet from the ground nor did 1 see u dead or wounded man who had been struck wih a cannon 6hot Passing through the woods from the first open field a distauce of nearly half a inile we reach another openhalfcleared field on the left of the road In this field there stands some deadenedtimber many large slumps and trees some ot th latter having been cut down audi some fallen from decay In this field the ground is quits steip with a so utlierndescent to near the center of lhe field aud then rises as rapidly til you reacii the woods on thosouih In the eastern part of this field is a log house mid barn aud an apple orchard Eightyfive deadrebels lay in this field which by way of dis linctiou I will call the old fieldFurther Ob and to the right of the road Is the cornfield where tho braveIndiaua lOlh suffered so severely In the v oods and along the road the scene was dreadful One bodv was nlaced in a siti tin nosture with the back leaninu aniim a tree lhe hands crossed in his Ian nis vs nartlv ooen and his lins slitrntlv nareutlv ted The ball had eutered his left breast just above the region of the heart Anoth er laid upon his side with head and arms thrown back the ball had cutaway part of his skull over his left eye Among a score or more of our own noble dead I saw not one badly mangled body like those which I saw at Vienna And I loved al so to fancy at least that I saw clearlystampedupon each cold faceacalm and holysatisfaction in pouring out their blood in a noble cause to save from ruin the land of our fathers My own brave boy was either among the slain or pursuing the flying foe In which of these positions I might find him I knew not 1 could possibly enjoy 110 higher honor than in the sacrifice of all I hehl dear for the salvation of my country With all the anxieties common to parents I searched for his well known counten ance among the slain So close was the resemblance in many cases that my pulse quickened and my brain began to reel I remembered that he wore a pair of boots of peculiar make and befo e I looked into the face of a corpse I looked at the boots till atlast I feltcoufideut I had found what I sought I looked again and againbefore 1 dared let my eyes rest upon the face There was a irark not on his 1 passed on in haste but suddenly feltcompelled to stop once more against a tree leaned back in the mostolassiccomposure was the most beautiful countenance I ever saw in death No female complexion could he more spotless The silky locks ofwavy auburn hair fell in rich profusion upon fair temples and faultless forehead Some friendly hand had parted his garments bar ing his breast from which the red current of life flowed out and had bathed histemples which were slill warm but hadceased to throb forever O ye winds bear these tidings softly to the loved ones at home Among tho wounded of our men it was really comforting to see with what patient heroism they bore their pains I said to one poor fellow with a shattered leg You must be in great pain can I do anything for you He said There are others worse off than roe when they are carried in you can tell them where I am ifyou please Another man had a ball through his right baudbreaking two of ihe bones He had done it up himself with a wet bandage and with his o her hand w s carrying one cornerof a stretcher with a wouu ledfaaucarryioganer corner of the same stretcher was a man with his head and face covered with blood He said he was not hurt at all he had only lost a large piece of his hat and a small piece of his scalp In the old field among the rebels some of the scenes were horrid and revolting in the extreme A large number of the dead were shot in the head One was shot di rpply in thftoyAt4ttytytnain was ooziug trom the wound rivedead and onewouuded lay behind one log all but thewounded one were shot in the head Onerehel had a ball through his neck whieh des troyed the power of speech though I don t think his wound was mortal Sev eral of tlie dead were old and grey headed men A daiK coinpiexioned man with a heavy black beard who said he was from Mississippi was lying on the ground with a broken thigh He was st rn aud sullen he had only one lavor to ask that was that some one of us would kill him I said lo him we will soon take you to the surgeon and do all we can to relieve you for we are satisfied that you have beendeceived by wicked men and do not know what you have been doing To which he meekly replied that is possible A 3oung man quite a boy begged me to let the Liucolnites kill hitn An elderly man sat with his back against a stump with a Dan directly through the center ot tnu bead at lhe base of the brain There was a ghastly grin upon his countenance his eyes were stretched widely into vacancy while his breath was rapid deep aud heavy His was a living death for he was senseless A lad of fourteen with a mash ed ankle protested his innocence andbegged to be taken care of He said he was pressed into the service and had neverfired a gun at a Union man and never would Numbers of rebels made in effect the same declaration Doing Good atRandomThere is a d iss of men and women in all 1rotei Ant ommuiilticB who think it a very neat thing lo do good at random They sow broadcast of cheap seed content to reap nothing at all aud pleasantly diap pointed if they find here and there a stalk of corn to reward their sowing They do not prepare tlieir ground they do not cul tivate it hi all but Uiey sow hoping that iu some open place a seed may fall and germinate borne of these people regard this method of doing good as a kind 01 Holy stratagem a christiau trick which takes the devil at a disadvantage 1 once knew a kind old gentleman who did a business that brought him considerably intocontact will rough and profane persons and as he wished lo do something lor them he kept his pockets filled with liltle printed cards ntiiledTheSwearers Prayer andwhenever an oath came out the uLterer wasimmediately presented with this card with a liltle story ou it aud a statement that lo swear is neither brave polite nor wise 1 very well remember hearing the old gentle man say that though he had given away hundreds of these cards he had never learned thai one of ihem had done any good I do not wonder al it It was a sneaking way of doing good or of trying to do it If lhe old man had remonsirated personally with these swearing fellows and told ihem that their habit was both vulgar and wicked does any one suppose the suit would have beon so unsatisfactory He had not pluck enough to do ihis so he gave them a card and ihey either threw it in his face or threw it away Butthen the cards did not cost much I have been much interested inwatching a carlodd of passengers while reciving each from lhe hands of a professionaldistributor a religious truck All have receiv ed lhe gift nolitelv iu deference to lhe motive winch prompted or was supposeu to prompt ill bestowal vetI have never failed lo percieve that nolileness was real Iv taxed in the rnatler Now let me be 1 candid and confess thai 1 was never pleas imoressed bv being offered a tract in araiiroad car Thi fact cannot be attribu ted to any lack of disposition to enntem plate religious subjects but there is some tning wnicn tells me that it is improper and indelicate for any man to come into 11 public vehicle and thrust upon me and upon my fellow passengers a set of mo tivesand opinions on religion which may or may not accord with my own and theirs just as it happens I think the natural action of the mind is to brace iUelf against influence sought to be sprung upon it in this manner and I am yet to beconvinced that this indiscriminate and wholele distribution of religious tracts iu railroad stations and public conveyances is notdoing and has not done more harm than good 1 know that multitudes of men not vicious are disgusted with it andoffended by it and that there is something call it what you may in the emotionsexcited by the presentation of a tract under such illchosen circumstances whichcounter acts any gooil influence that it wasintended to produce A gentleman willreceive a tract politely and read it or notaccording to his whim but it will be very apt to disgust him with the style ofChristianity which it represents I am aware that the secretaries and lhe agents of the tract societies make veryencouraging reports of the results oftheirrperations I am always interested in ihese details und do not discredit at al thestatements which they make Nay I amconvinced that in certain lepartments of their effort they are successful in doing much good I believe that their noble army of j colporteurs going from loiielyneighborhood to neighborhood and carrying with them an unselfish devoted life and the living voice of prayer exhortation and counsel win many souls to christianvirtue I am willing to acknowledgefurther that here aud there a tract chance sown may fall into ground ready toreceive it but I have a right to question whether the same outlay of effortandmoney applied directly in other fields would not bring verymuch larger returns My point is that in all efforts to do good in this way appropriateness of time and place is always to be consulted I once took my seat in a dentists chair to have aB operation performed upon my teeth If I remember correctly an ugly fang was to be removed At any rate pain wasinvolved in the matter but no sooner was the dentists arm around my head aud his iustrumeut iu my mouth thantheellmeaning and zealous operator beganquestioning me upon lhe subject of personalreligion Now it seemed quite as bad to undertake to propngate Christianity at the point of a surgicnl instrument as it would be to win proselytes by the sword and the utter incongruity of the two operations dis gimtAH rrro At an j ratri I tftungtd my dentist I fell like the man who found upon his landladys table an articleof butter that was inconveniently encumbered with hair and who informed her that he had no ohjectiou lo hair but would prefer to have it served upon a separate dish A good many Tears ago I read a Sun day school book entitled Walks ofUsefulness It represented a man going out into the treet and pitcuing 11110 every person he met with upon the subject of re ligion or starting a conversation and iui mediately giving it a spiritual twist thought then that lie was a remarkably in geuions man a wonderful story teller to say the least ot him I urn inclined to think now that he romanced a little Every op eration was so neatly done and turned out so well that I really suspect it was pure fiction I have Ibis to say ai any rate that if he did say what he professed to have done and iaid under the circumstances which he described he owed it to thepoliteness of hose whom he addressed that he was not dismissed with a decided rebuff and told to go about his business A word fitly spoken how good it is Ah yes how very good il is Christian zeal is no excuse for bad taste nor is Christian effort exempt irom the laws of fitness and propriety which altach to human effort of other helds It I wish to reach a mans mind upon any important subject andcircumstances to chance I pave my way to his mind by a series of carefullyadjusted efforts Abrupt transitions of thought and feelings and violent interruptions of the currents ol mental tile and action are nrver favorable to reflection If I wish to cheer a mail who is bowed to the earth in grief for the loss of a companiou I wlllnol break in upon his mourning with a lively tune upon a fiddle Ifl wish to attract him to a religious life I will not interrupt the flow of his innocently social hours by some terrible threat or warning In truth 1 kuow of notning that calls for more care a nicer discrimination or choicer address than a personal attempt to move anirreligious mind in a religious direction The word of gold should always hare asettiug of silver Lessons in Life The McCook Family Col McCook wounded at Somerset had a brother killed at Manasas and had two other brothers in the army one in the fiont of Buells divission The father Daniel McCook is iu Washington and was iu the battle of Manassas and Balls Bluff as an amateur fighter He has a brother with six sons in the Union army and the two families contribute about a dozen active fighliug meB to the war Folderol Gen Buel says None of my officers shall altempt to tell people what Ihis war is about I myself dont know what it is about I only know it is my duty to whip the enemy Telegram Whch if Gen Buel said it shows that he is uotfit for his position A leader iu this great war for the Union ouglitto kuow what he is fighting for or lay aside his shoul ler straps Ameuicas Cast Steel Cast steel is now successfully manufactured in this country to a considerable extent and materially interferes with theimnnrtutinn from Great Britain The iEtna Sleel Works at Jersey City are among the oldest manutacturers m country and the steel is in every way equal to thut of foreign manufacture Anecdotes of the late Prince Albert It is said of Prince Albert that he had a very great aversion to expensivepublic funerals and that his own wasconducted in that quiet and unostentatious manner which was so thoroughly inaccordance with his ideas when living In the domestic circle he was the most impartial of fathers Finding the Prince of Wales at fault once among a party of lads with whom he had been at play he took him among them and made him apologize for his rudenessnotwithstanding they were only the sons of sturdy yeomen He delighted to assist the poor and would design buildings for them upon the most economical plan and lend his aid in theirconstruction He was in the habit of relating with a great deal of merriment anadventure he had once with a boy who had charge of cows which the Prince desired to look at The boy notknowing his Royal Highness threatened to set the dog on The Prince explained that he was Prince Albtrt Oh said the bumpkin placing his thumb to his nose and extending his digits Walker ah intimation that he did not believe the slory fnd that his visitor must leave Iu his household he invariably threw off all officialdignity A disturbance at one time arose between himself and the Queen at the end of which the Prince retired to his room Victoria believing hersell to be at fault came to his door about an hour afterwards aud knocked Who is there said the Prince It is the Queen was the reply I do not open my door for the Queen heanswered Victoria immediately said in a subdued tone it is your wife and the door was opened at once The Sutler Abomination An army correspondent of the Albany Evening Journal writes Treason lurks in many shapes but the most foul is that which endeavors to alienate the soldier from implicit confidence in the government with reference to pay and allowances Sutlers are simply well robbers is the word Witness the followingpartial scale of prices A paper of chewing tobacco of the very worst description and manufacture and containing not half so much as your ordinary three cent paper for 6 cents a common clay pipe two for a cent 3 cents a twelve cent pie 30 cents c c I sincerely trust tne office will be abolished and thatlittle necessaries not thought much of at home but the want of which is much exaggerated here will be furnished in some equitable manner whereinkelptojiaxia cannot be so freely practiced Bullets and Bayonets as well as a Moral Uprising The following professes to be anextract from a letter written by a high naval officer at Port Royal It is sound sense whoever wrote it I have been lying here now nearly a month blockading Savannah Savannah river and acting as a water guard for soldiers As I am not one of those who think that this war is to be decided by moral pressure the price of sugar or salt or the uprising of that Southern Union party I cannot help being of opinion that the quicker the army learn to do without gunboats aud fortifications and boldly march ahead withtheniseves for their protection the quicker we shall see daylight which now is visible only to contractors and such like people who being quite satisfied with thepresent condit on ot affairs are bound to speak hopefully and in good spirits I begiu to think with Southern papers that our soldiers enlisted because times were dull but with an understanding that the moral grandeur of the uprising as politicians say was to be sufficient Major Winthrops John Brent AH the good thai all the leaders of the accursed n bellion are likely to doiu the world will scarcely compensate it for the evil they have wrought in the sacrifice of the young aul gallant Major Winthrop alone He was u man of genius of rare and fine powers his friendsscarcely knw the extent of Ids ability whan he was alive and now that he is gone every nevposthumous work given to lhe public deepens their sense of the greatness of thrir bss Mijor Winthrop was yet in his youth when he was killed aud his books that have since been published are in somfi res pects immature and imperfect Ceci Dreeme was scarcely more than a grand outline or sketch John Brent is more fin ished But what vigor in the concep tion what freshness and vivacity ot style what manliness and delicacy ol sentiment what keen perception of character what originality of form what glow andharmony of color It is likely that if theauthor had lived he would have become one of the first of our novelists and talewriters As it is lhe works that neverreceived his finis dng touches will take their places in the livraries of all scholars It is a tale of adventure on the western prairies in which lhe reader is carried rapidly from California to Chicago and afterwards from New York to London The characters are fw and the incidents few but the plot has breathless interest and the events are thrilling withoutbeing improbable One chapter called the Gallop of Three is a masterly bit ofdescription full of the fresh life of the great western plains aud yet as poelic and grand as any romance ef chivalry Sf IT Post